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In FUNK magazine this month is the incredible story about activating the island Escondia SA-096
By PA3EXX LU5WW LU1FAM
Amazing story almost hard to believe what they did to activate this rare IOTA SA-096 island http://dx-world.net/2013/lu6w-escondida-island-sa-096/
Swimming in dangerous cold water risking injuries losing rigs and setting up a station in the middle of a colony of stinking hostile sea-lion's .

After more then 20 years my radio room had to be complete cleared out for a new floor.
What a lot of things gathered together in all these years.
It is a travel back in time this cleaning up operation.
It took many days to remove 3 tables 2 bureaus and all other furniture and radio stuff
Including even my LP record collection.

Good that my cat is helping me where she can.

The room sounds empty the acoustic is better.
Now only 1 shelf on the wall with the K3 is left
And still running WSPR 10m is very good today heard KH7Y lp 28400 loud with EU pile.
first time this season a 80m west-coast decode
and again the best possible DX on 28MHz
2013-11-28 08:24 ZL2IT 28.126084 -23 0 RF80km 5 PA0O JO33hg 18312 337
2013-11-28 07:46 W1CK 3.594049 -12 0 DM13ie 5 PA0O JO33hg 8987 30

This evening weak but workable T33A and first time heard K9W
40m rather weak possible not the best propagation tonight but my first time to copy them.
Just fixed my 30/40m inverted V
Used rotary dipole for 40m.
Lot of QRI including the crazy QRX / "contester" Dx-pedition jammer

I have lost a bit my taste for joining DX-pedition pileup's with all the anti ham-spirit that comes with it.
But could not ignore these interesting DX-peditions because of this.
So I listened and tried just to ignore the deliberate QRI just as if it not existing.
Just wait until the jammer(s) get tired and keep on listening for the right moment to call.
I check my rig settings to prevent unwanted simplex calling.
And If some ham makes that mistake just do not join the up up concert causing more QRM then the HAM that send's simplex by mistake.
When tuning I check the tune freq before and in between to prevent QRM-ing not like some hams seem to do. Just start tuning on or very c…

Trying to find the leftovers of my 30/40/12m dipole in the bushes this morning
10m wspr was running last night prop was not very good at 80/40 almost radio blackout
but surprise to see the WSPR reports from ZL 1Watt and even 200mW/18000km